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Office: Gordon Street, near the Bridge. SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1882. PUBLISHER’S NOTICE. I this week again take charge of the Argus office, and all business matters connected therewith must be with my self, in the future. I shall endeavor to merit a fair share of the local patronage, and will gratefully appreciate all favors. j All unpaid subscriptions must be paid to me. H. A. Wrench. If you are indebted to the Argus i for subscription, lookout for your bill on printed strip, and come up and pay. If vol are one year overdue, arrangements will be made to collect, and a rod mark will denote- immediate business. CURRENCY. Sloan & Walker, druggists, have just received a large stock of Fruit Cans. Go ami see them. —Adv. Eggs 13 cents a dozen. Cotton lias commenced to grow. Our saw mills find a market for all the lumber they can rip. Theives made a raid on the Rudd house garden Monday night. The produce shipping business from Dalton has doubled the past year. There will be no celebration of the glorious 4th at Chattanooga this year. Adam Pfankuche exhibits a cucumber ten inches long and as big as your arm. Quite a party of our Gordon county cousins wvill commingle with the com mencement crowd. The Oscar Wilde’s say that Tinsley, of Calhoun, is a better butter than he is a batter. Denton & Lynn have bought the inter est of G. W. Oglesby in the Dalton flour ing mill. The doctors say that there is more sickness in the country around Dalton, than in the city. The Cleveland young people are con sidering a frolic for some of the Dalton young ones. The “tapping of a woodpecker in the emerald shades,” is purely a Dalton im agination. The report of injury to fruit crop in this county is only true of those trees improperly cared for. R. A. Henry and B. F. Hunt, of Trion ■Factory, are over taking in the torn ■mencements. I Collector Holtzclaw is beginning to re ■ceive enquiries relative to the making of ■teach brandy. Fred Cox takes 720 dozen binds of oats Brom ten acres of land that will average busfiel to the dozen. Ta, ta, Kansas. I it is rather a press of good things to ■pave both commencement sermons in morning. It looks too much like a |Buitch game. I Newt. Rison tells us of having roast dwg ears ten days ago, and presents us ■with delicious peaches of the Beatrice ■ Married, at the Rudd House, on the ■th. by J. F. Trevitt, Esq.,W. L. Swaf- to Miss Mary E. Senn, all of this No insurance. ■ Capt. Tim Ford, who has the boss fish B in| l of Georgia, is building another. ■<' is very enthusiastic over the proba gßy success of his German carp. ■ The Argus learns that G. W. Oglesby, H>hn Chester and Paul Trammell will ■fri't large wooden work factory in At- l.ita. ■A heavy law suit, involving the claim has been progressing in Dal- this week, between the heirs of the estate. rom this on the Argus will give a W‘"klv corrected Dalton market report, ■ also from Atlanta, Chattanaoga and ■"ne, so soon as reliable arrangements Ibe made. ■ ring Place has had a railroad meet and shoved Dalton onto the side k of the Gainesville and Dalton rt-Cut. The road has been built to Clay—on paper. he advertisement of the Ojinajamin (■ompany in last weeks Argus, caused sale of over 1,000 shares in a few day s r, the paper being quoted in the ap ation for the same. ■ H. Wilson, tax receiver, will wait the merchants in Dalton, at their ■cs of business, on Wednesday the ■ inst., and hope they will be prepared ive in their taxes on that day. ' the morning you can take in the "ford commencement sermon at 10 °ck, and at 11 feast your eyes on the tty listeners to the lecture at the fe- college. rejoices in the possession of a yming lady dentist, tflio ex teeth in the most artistic manner. SB sweet smiles allures the patient into dreams, and while under the witch ®M"f her blue eyes a’/Xpain is forgotten, tl le llalne o f yj| C f a j r ( l en . she is ready for t JBfe^' ,o 'dlor gave one of his r;tre and music feasts, in the banemeni ■pi'tist church, Wednesday evc- of the closing u of bis large music <is ■ 1“ dH ■ in .4, \lered f I ai aw fi<-^i, tb to tion y| >7d, willJeciaJly / iut’. Aopie arey u *. % >- lk iln d butte ■ ■ StVV G. H. Gilkey, of Spartanburg, S. C., and Miss Lina Bivings, were married at the residence of the latters father, J. D. Bivings, near this city, Monday even ing. Miss Lina was one of our most popular and fascinating young ladies and will be greatly missed by her large circle of friends. The Oscar Wilde base ball club, of Cleveland, attended by some thirty’ or fortg ladies and gentleman came down last Saturday’ to play’ the Sunflowers a I game. The game excited considerable interest, was witnessed by a large crowd, and won by the Cleveland club 30 to 14 scores. There was some very fine play ing- Silas Stevens assassinated Lee Jack son, near Red Clay, Wednesday morn ing, by shooting him through a crack in his cabin. Both were colored laborers I on the railroad and had had a fight the previous day. Stevens escaped, but is being looked for. If the Dalton people will make Cleve -1 land a visit and remain a few days they 1 will learn how to treat strangers gentle manly.—Cleveland Herald. When Dalton concludes to do so, those I will be selected who are capable of ap- ! predating such treatment, as well as ! deserving it. Cutting a Gordian if not. A perplexing case was brought to the notice of the governor yesterday, from Whitfield county. One A. P. Smith, it appears, was arrested and convicted on a charge of gambling, ami was sentenced to the chain gang five months and a half. There being also an indictment for rob bery’ against him he was kept in jail six months to await trial, at which he was acquitted. It was then claimed that he had served his punishment for gambling; but the judge had sentenced him to the chain gang instead of to jail, which he did yesterday by’ pardoning Smith, who had been sent to the chain gang to serve out the sentence of the judge. —Post-Ap- peal, 10th. The Week at Rome. Remarkably’ dull. Rome street tax is $-5 a year. Six inmates in Floyd county jail. New wheat is selling at §1.25 a bushel. Mrs. Simon Reynolds, of DeSota, is dead. Floyd county democratic convention July’ 4th. i An artificial stone pavement is being I laid in Rome. Will Phinizy has been very low with typhoid fever. Mosquitos are billing the town for a summer concert. Floyd county republicans called to meet on the 24th. Shorter college commencement last Sunday to Thursday. Rome’s cotton factory is being pushed right along; also a cotton seed oil mill. A reception at the twenty-fifth annual commencement of Rome female college was an occasion of last week. Murray County, via the Tinies. Corn meal famine. Croaking ’count of cotton. Wheat harvest is abont over. E. W. Bond reports corn tassling. Jimmie, son of R. E. Wilson, is se riously ill. Murray announces four months free school this year. Spring Place is credited with an au thoress of sheet music. Elijah 'Wiliams, ten acres of cotton a foot high, and squaring. Joe Morris, reports rye 7}-s feet high, and 100 grains to the head. The widow of James McCamy, a good old mother of Sumach creek, critically ill. There was a railroad meeting at Spring Place, last week, in the interest of the Gainesville and Dalton Short-Cut, at which considerable enthusiasm was manifested, the right of way offered, as well to contribute all in their power of of money and influence to the aid and encouragement of the enterprise. Com mittees were appointed for future de tails. GEORGIA NEWS. Arthur Gray’ says he will not contend for a return to the legislature. The yield of wheat in Catoosa county will be the best in ten years. A Jersey’ bull was sold in Atlanta the other day for §1,200. Polk county’ has thirty saw mills em ploying 1,050 hands. Liquor license in Baker county has been fixed at §I,OOO a year. The oat crop of Hancock county this year is estimated at one million bush els. A Clarke county lady was married be fore she was thirteen years of age, was a mother at fourteen years and a widow at fifteen years. On the authority of Mr. C. J. Wads worth, of Rome, there is a mulberry tree growing in Floyd county, which six men cannot reach around, and the fruit of this tree alone fattened twenty-five hogs last season. A colored woman in Macon on Mon day carried her baby to Baum’s picture gallery to have its picture taken. When she went to take it out of the carriage the horrified mother found the child dead, it haying died on the way. Tracklaying on the Rome end of the I Cincinnati and Georgia railroad is pro- , I greasing rapidly. It is Maj. McCracken’s | . intention to have trains running through ■ ' from Atlanta to Rome early in August . while the road between Atlanta and Ma- j con will be opened a month earlier. Gainesville Southron: “Our gold l fields need no more puffing by newspa- I pers or the pioneer miners. The fifty I j stamp mills ami the millions of capital > J in the hands of enterprising men are do- i ' ingthe work for us. Each week brings I in new men of intelligence, with capital ; I to work out our brightening destiny.’' Mr. C. W. Tucker, of Campbell county, had the misfortune of losing his thresh ing machine by fire hear Parker’s Mill on Tuesday lust.' The men engaged in threshing wheat had gone to dinner, and on their return found the machine in ['-viies, which was totally destroyed, j :r. ; about fiitv bushels of wheat. I mSb ROB RANDOM. Offhand Impressions of Persons and Things in General. I was out to see the base ball match i the other day, and while the boys were squabbling over some point of vantage, and getting their blood hotter than a quorum of congressmen on a party ques tion, I got to meditating a little, and from that to calculating, then to a con clusion There were at least fifty able bodied men who had squandered a day of usefulness, without gaining so much as a day of pleasure or recreation. Half of these were vaporing with the fumes of evil producing whisky and their mouths were like a volcano of foulness. I calcu late that the legitimate cost of this game was about §3OO. There was nothing so cial about it. It was exhaustion in stead of development of splendid mus j cle and athletism, and, all that a group of gamblers should realize, as I learn, five or six hundred dollars by betting. I admire a perfectly developed manhood 1 and sinewy muscles, and knightly ri valry, but excuse me from the tendency | of such games as that of last Saturday. *** j There is another game going on in this | state just now that reminds me, in some I of its features, of Saturday’s base ball. The analogy may not be striking to the casual reader, but there’ll not be enough of mystery left about my view of the matter as to entirely obscure it from those who will. There is a professional nine in Georgia politics, and some of them are good catchers, pitchers, bat ters and fielders, and they’ve got the rules of the game down so close, Mat they manage to make every inning count and they very seldom allow the second nine a score, who are gradually becom ing disgusted with the game under the rules, and like the autumn roses, one by one, they fall—out of line. Now, the game that attracts my notice is the man ner in which Henry Grady is picking up a third nine, to take the places of those who are falling out. He is giving the boys all the taffy that a healthy mind can take on, and so nice’y that one sel dom, if ever, imagines the sweetly pa tronizing smile of the beguiler. I will not say that Grady is selfish in this, but he is the boss racket of the big gun of the democratic artilery, and he is too fresh from the companionship not to know and sympathize with the ambi tions of these young men, and from the otherside he too well knows that there are at least t wenty years of promises out ahead of them, but he also knows that in politics, as in war, it is the bold, dash ing cavalier, impulsive enough to make his chance, that wears the crown of suc cess. *** Passing from these things to the flut ter of female fascination —Prof. Smith’s college commencement, and one won ders why there is so much of the pro siac practical in this life. This week the girls are reviewing and rehearsing for the coming week, and they are as full of rythm as the poetry of a day dream in an orange bower, bright, beau tiful and frolicsome as a metoric tourna ment, ready and positive as a tax gath erer. Tn every conceivable way they exhibit the painstaking of the teacher and the various aptness of the pupil. Ah ! if this was the beginning of the life before them; but it’s not, and I can’t help but wonder how many of them are being prepared for the hereafter into which youthful impulse and sympathy will as naturally lead them as the water follows down its gravitated channel; how many of them are learning the ety molgical process of a cup of tea, the pre fixes and suffixes of a pot of coffee; the problem of a batch of dough, the science of a pan of biscuit, or the philosophy of a good dinner. *** There is no problem of God’s great work that perplexes my mind so much as the certain fatality of age. I often wonder if Eve had not listened to the se ductive whisperings of that little devil of a trouble breeder, whether or not peo ple would have given evidence of decay in growing old, jvhether the young life would ever have left them, or whether we all would have been visible only as butterflies or some such gauzy winged creatures, ever enjoying the sippings from a perpetual blooming garden, with no bad hoys to throw stones at us, and no girfs to parade our images on new spring hats I can’t figure it out. **. Ami yet when we see the mimic fool ishness of youth exhibit itself in the bubblings from a fount of maturity, it suggests an humor of absurdity. The other day I was following close behind a Dalton man, who ordinarily looks solid as an owl, anda s if the weighty affairs of life were tugging at his coat tail like j forty loaded cars to a mogul on an up I grade, and he was with a woman, young and pretty, and they seemed as if they I were in terrible earnest, or were playing 1 a match game of “mash” for the cham- ■ pionship. It was not my business to heed their muttering, but could you ex- : pect irffi to clamp the brakes to m.y ears : when he let off a lot of Lake Como gush ■ about the sighing of the evening winds 1 through his sadly lonely window blinds, and the wasting perfumes from the trail ing vines that clung to the mossy walls of the ancestral castle, and how the shimmering of the morning sun lost its i gleaming, and all because there was a va cancy about the he»rths*t*»« nf *' s heart. And th* ~ !r! s " little things, and popped her faceup un der his hat just like she was going to take a proposal off of the bat, as the base ball lingo has it. I felt just like what in the mischief is the reason this sort of thing can’t just keep on always till a fellow gets tired and unrolls his mortal coil in disgust. Rob Random. BASE BALL. The Esthetic Game of Saturday Creates I New Interest in the Play. No small excitement was created last Saturday upon the occasion of a match gnnigof base ball, played by the Oscar Wilde club, of Cleveland, and the Sun flowers, late of this city. The former was considerably victorious. Since the demise of the Sunflowers, two other clubs have sprung into existence in this vicinity, and are yclept “The Dalton Ground-swellers,” and “The Dug Gap Tidal-wavers.” A match game will be played between these clubs upon the same field where the Sunflowers wilted, on the 4th of July next. We regret to say that a large amount has been staked on the issue, for we are loth to encourage the vague un certainty of chance. Seats will be provi ded for ladies and feeble young men. Both clubs are in excellent training, and an afternoon of quiet enjoyment may be ant'eipated upon the occasion. The members of the Ground-swellers are : Amos Sutherland, pitcher ; Jesse A Glenn, catcher; John Keller, Ist base; H. K. Main, 2d; Warren Sitton, 3d; John Worthy, short stop; Will Tibbs, right fielder; W. 11. Pruden, left; J. C. Riley, centre. Bob Springfield, scorer; and Lank Barrett, umpire. The Dug Gap Tidal-wavers are: J. D. Collins, pitcher; J. H. Hyer, catcher; J. D. Bivings, Ist base; Win. Eskew, “2d; Henry Schoeller, 3d; J. A. Holtzclaw, short stop; Robert Cox, right fielder; Tim Ford, left; J. W. Longley, centre. Andy Calhoun, scorer; and John Tibbs, i umpire. All the preliminaries are arranged. The Ground-swellers will be furnished refreshments by R. P. O’Neil and Morris Otyson, while the Tidal-wavers will be served bj - Bob Hill and Woody Turner. Dr. Echols, assisted by Dr. Stephens, will be on hand in case of accidents. The Mackerel brigade will be led by J. Q. A. Lewis, supported in the grand cho rus by Walter Alexander. As there will be no necessity, whatever, for the city marshals on the ground, they will be there in full force. The ladies are specially requested not to throw boquets to their favorites dur ing the game, and the Mackerels are sol emnly enjoined to take their cue from their leader. If the pang of separation will not be too heart-rending, it is hoped visitors will leave their dogs at home. It will be the duty of the scorers to see that the diamond is kept clear of hogs and law yers during the progress of the excite ment. No Mackerel will be allowed to give an independent yell, tho’ it disembowel him to refrain, but must swell the or ganized chorus ‘con anima.’ As several of the players are hfghly excitable and nervous, it is requested that there be no smoking on the grounds. Lemonade will be furnished for pecu niary consideration —terms cash, or a wavering note. It is earnestly desired that small boys not fully’ recovered from the effects of vermifuge, will absent themselves. Positively no spirits sold on the grounds, but a hack will run to the city every half hour. Fare, round trip, 50c. or four trips for $2. All questions of law will be promptly adjudicated upon the spot by the pre vailing justices of the peace. Wanted, Agents by the National Mat rimonial Alliance and Chattanooga Mu tual Aid Association. For terms, apply at once, 8. B. Sherrill, secretary, 183J4 Church st., Nashville, Tenn., or M. M. Bright, Chattanooga, Tenn. B. C. Biv ings, -Local Agent, Dalton, Ga. Im* Market—Groceries, Produce, Itc. EGGS—Per dozen, 13. BUTTER—Per pound, 15@25. POULTRY—Hens, 20@25; chickens, W#ls. BEESAX—Per pound, POTATOES —Sweet, per bushel. 11.00; Irish ' $1.75. ONION’S—Per bushel. $2.00. WHEAT— Red, $1.20; white, $1.25. CORN—Per bushel, sl.lO. MEAL—Per bushel, sl.lO. I HAY—Per cwt. SI.OO. OATS—Per bushel, 80c. WHEAT BRAN—Per cwt.. $1.85. DRIED ERUlT—Apples, peeled, 6; unpecled, ( 5@3c.; peaches, 7(nC5, HlDES—Green, per lb.«ssc.; salted, 6c t ; dry salted, 11c. TALLOW—Per lb. s@Kc. MOLASSES—Per gal. 55(4’0. SYRUP—New Orleans, FLOUR—Per cwt. $3.60@54.20. | ( COFFEE—Per lb. 12(416c. SUGA^ —Standard A, 11; extra C, 10; yel- 1 low. 9c. LARD—Tierce, 14c.; per lb. 15. THIS WEEK. 2300 Humliolm New Crop « IRISH POTATOES. . BRING THEM IN EARLY! DeJOURNETTE & CO. ’ /Also, will arrange with parties having fine | PEACH crops for the handling of same. We are prepared to furulsh Peach and loujato Crates for shippers at Factory , itiJO ts / prices. ' r , y;7. v 7.--' <>uU r **• .war c JOHN W . [Successor to BOGLE & HENDERSONJ DALTON, CA m Manufacturer and Wholesalt! rtnd Retail Dealer in all kind. TINWARE, TINWARE, TINWARE. teCPS e ° nßtaßtly on hand ’ lMfce Tarl «‘y of & HEATIN6 STOVES| H0,,0w ’ Ware »Woodenware •fl - Baskets, Brooms, and House-furnishing WMa. n,,sort ’’’®nto( !><)( KERN and GLASSWARE. W Tin- s heet Iron, Zine and Copper Work done: "proofing, house spouting.and repaitingdoni by best workmen, and at the lowest prices WM. A. MILLER. C. T, CARGILL. MILLER & CARGILL, WHOLESALE QUEENSWARE No. 184 Market Street, TKISTIT.. « Refined Petroleum and Lubricating Oils* |sep3 Gm | W. F. Fischer <fc Bro. 215 MARKET STREET, OmLTTJLZSTOOG-JL, TZEJSTLtT., Have ou hand the largest and best sele.:ted stock of JEWELR.Y, JEWELRY, JEWELRY, In the city; in part as follows: DIAMONDS : Diamond Rings, Diamond Pins, Diamond Ear Drops, Diamond Studs. WATCHES : Gent’s Gold Stem and Key Winders, Gent’s Silver Stem and Key Winders, Ladies’ Gold Stem and Key Winders/ Ladies and Gent’s Gold Chains, Ladies’ Gold Necklaces and Lockets, Ladies’ Fine Gold and Stone Sets, F> ne Gold Set Rings, IS kt. Plain Gold Engagement an I Wedding Rings, Solid Silver and Silver-Plated Ware, Clocks, Spectacles, &c., Ac We are Sole Agents of the Celebrated “DIAMOND” I THE BEST IN THE WORLD. BY MAIL SOLICITED. <3s-. 'W- HAIVrU-aTOBT, DEALER IN STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, TEAS, Tobacco and Cig;ars SOLE AGENT FOR A. MILLER BRO’S., WASHINGTON CO., TENN., F 1 LOU IFt, The Best and Cheapest in the Market. DJLUTOJSr, G-A.. ONFECTIONERIES, CANNED GOODS, DOMESTIC and FOREIGN FRUIT.® r The moat Complete Stock and Lowest Prices of any firm in the city. iW-G-OCLDS DELIVERED I ,ie2s Iy. LEWIS SEASONGOOD. ELIAS MOCK. ALFRED SEASONGOOD. CHAS. SEASONGOOIX W. L. BUTLER, Representing the South. J. Ac 1,. CO., Importers and Dealers in Foreign and Domestic __ WOOIjENS, AND MNUF ACTURERSOF dotb.ins'o S, w. Cor. Third and Vine Streets. CINCINNATI. HENRY DIETZ. LOUIS C. BCHUET2R H. DIETZ & CO. PORK AND BEEF PACKERS, CURERSOF “RIHITNO fSTJIX” K/. IF". Wholesale and Retail Druggie Color, l» I’"' ...• ■" ”’.7 •